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Author's note: This is kind of strange and I'd appreciate any and all feedback.

Midnight

As the clock strikes midnight restless minds remain awake at all corners of the compass.

In a hotel near the white house Annabeth Schott stares blankly at the wall thinking about Leo, whom she has come to consider among one of her closest friends.

Matt Santos struggles to keep his mind on the papers in front or him.

Josh Lyman restlessly flips through the channels, not really paying attention to what he is doing.

Amy Gardener's suspicious mind has put two and two together and now she isn't sure how she feels.

Donna Moss tosses and turns under the unfamiliar bedding of C.J.'s spare bed. Discomfort has nothing to do with her unrest.

Down the hall from Donna, C.J. Cregg sits cross-legged on her bed thinking back across the past seven years, recalling moments with two different men for two very different reasons.

Across town Charlie Young ponders the future, rather then the past.

Toby Ziegler wonders how he let things spin this far out of control.

In her mother's house, Mallory O'Brian misses her father.

Danny Conncanon stares out the window of his slightly cluttered apartment, wallowing in his misery, unaware that he is one of many suffering that night.

Ignorance isn't always bliss.